politics
New books become films before they are printed as books?
Hollywood can make a full feature film is less time than Simon and Schuster can print a book. What's wrong with picture-- or, How to kill off readers, in your sloth.
Poe blames it on the Juleps. What's your excuse?
Edgar Allan Poe apologizes to his publishers for drinking too much and asks them to buy an article because he’s “desperately pushed for money” in an 1842 letter acquired by the University of Virginia for an exhibition marking the author’s 200th birthday.
Writing from Philadelphia, Poe blames his friend William Ross Wallace, a poet and lawyer, for making him drink too many “juleps” and for misbehaving on a visit to New York.
“Will you be so kind enough to put the best possible interpretation upon my behaviour while in N-York?,” Poe asks New York publishers J. and Henry G. Langley. …
